the economic theory being developed by trump is actually sarcastically called "fully automated luxury communism" by cynical post-leftists trying to grapple with the real-world consequences of superproduction within a capitalist mode of production, which isn't how it was supposed to happen. the capitalists were supposed to insist on artificial scarcity and empower us via employment, which would be their downfall. oops.

i'm in favour of reshoring superproduction, but we're supposed to get a guaranteed income out of it, not be told to go starve in the ditch. the proletariat of the future is supposed to be like me - overeducated due to emancipation from labour, and able to focus on esoteric art and literature, instead.

see, this is where you have to bring in some concept of eugenics. like, actually. not dumb racism, but some way to better the human race. so that communism doesn't become idiocracy.

let the robots do the work. great. but we have to have distributive justice. maybe it's not quite as rigorously held to marx as some would like, but we need some way for the masses to take advantage of this rather than be bludgeoned by it.